Skeffington Lutwidge
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Admiral of the Red Skeffington Lutwidge was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He had a particular connection with Horati
Portrait by Philip Jean
HMS Racehorse and HMS Carcass stuck in the ice on 7 August 1773
Nelson and the Bear (Richard Westall, 1809)
Memorial to Lutwidge in St Paul, Irton
HMS Sandwich (1759)
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HMS Sandwich was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 14 April 1759 at Chatham.
The moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780 by Francis Holman, painted 1780 shows Santo Domingo exploding, with Rodney's flagship Sandwich in the foreground.
Gibraltar Relieved By Sir George Rodney by Dominic Serres. Rodney's relief fleet at Gibraltar with captured Spanish battleships from the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Sandwich with the tallest mast is to the right of the group flying the flag of St George.
HMS Sandwich fires into the French flagship Bucentaure (the vessel shown completely dismasted in foreground, left of centre) at the battle of Trafalgar. Bucentaure also fights HMS Victory (behind her) and HMS Temeraire (left side of the picture). In fact, Sandwich did not fight at Trafalgar; her presence in this painting is due to a mistake by Auguste Mayer, the painter.